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{\MT The Letter from Jacob

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Jacob,
a
servant
of
God
and
of
the
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
“Messiah” means “Anointed One”.}
to
the
twelve
tribes
which
are
in
the Diaspora:
Greetings.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Count
it
all
joy,
my
brothers,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:2 }
The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”}
when
you fall into
various temptations,
\VS{3}knowing
that
the
testing
of
your
faith
produces
endurance.
\VS{4}Let
endurance
have its
perfect
work,
that
you
may
be
perfect
and
complete,
lacking
in
nothing.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}But
if
any
of
you
lacks
wisdom, let
him
ask
of
God,
who
gives
to
all liberally
and
without
reproach,
and
it
will
be
given
to
him.
\VS{6}But let
him
ask
in
faith,
without
any
doubting,
for
he
who
doubts
is like
a wave
of
the
sea,
driven
by
the
wind
and
tossed.
\VS{7}For
that
man shouldn’t think
that
he
will
receive
anything
from
the
Lord.
\VS{8}He
is
a
double-minded
man,
unstable
in
all
his
ways.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Let
the
brother
in
humble
circumstances
glory
in
his
high
position;
\VS{10}and
the
rich,
in
that
he
is made
humble,
because
like
the
flower
in
the
grass,
he
will
pass
away.
\VS{11}For
the
sun
arises
with
the
scorching
wind
and
withers
the
grass;
and
the
flower
in
it falls,
and
the
beauty
of
its
appearance
perishes.
So
the
rich
man
will
also
fade
away
in
his
pursuits.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Blessed
is
a
person
who
endures
temptation,
for
when
he
has
been
approved,
he
will
receive
the
crown
of
life
which
the Lord
promised
to
those
who
love
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Let
no
man
say
when
he
is
tempted, “I
am
tempted
by
God,”
for
God can’t
be
tempted
by
evil,
and
he
himself
tempts
no
one.
\VS{14}But
each
one
is
tempted
when
he
is drawn
away
by
his
own
lust
and
enticed.
\VS{15}Then
the
lust,
when
it
has
conceived, bears
sin.
The
sin,
when
it
is full grown, produces
death.
\VS{16}Don’t
be
deceived,
my
beloved
brothers.
\VS{17}Every
good
gift
and
every
perfect
gift
is
from
above,
coming
down
from
the
Father
of
lights,
with
whom can
be
no
variation
nor turning
shadow.
\VS{18}Of
his
own
will
he gave
birth
to
us
by
the
word
of
truth,
that
we
should
be
a
kind
of
first
fruits
of
his
creatures.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}So,
then,
my
beloved
brothers,
let
every
man
be swift
to
hear,
slow
to
speak,
and
slow
to
anger;
\VS{20}for
the
anger
of
man
doesn’t produce
the
righteousness
of
God.
\VS{21}Therefore,
putting away
all filthiness
and overflowing
of
wickedness,
receive
with
humility
the
implanted
word,
which
is
able
to
save
your
souls.\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:21 }
or, preserve your life.}
\par }{\PP \VS{22}But
be
doers
of
the
word,
and
not
only
hearers, deluding
your
own selves.
\VS{23}For
if
anyone
is
a
hearer
of
the
word
and
not
a
doer,
he
is
like
a
man looking
at
his
natural
face
in
a
mirror;
\VS{24}for
he sees
himself,
and goes
away,
and
immediately
forgets
what
kind
of man
he
was.
\VS{25}But
he
who
looks
into
the
perfect Torah
of
freedom
and continues,
not
being
a
hearer
who forgets
but
a
doer
of
the
work,
this
man
will
be
blessed
in
what
he
does.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}If
anyone among
you
thinks
himself
to
be
religious
while
he
doesn’t
bridle
his
tongue,
but
deceives
his
heart,
this
man’s
religion
is
worthless.
\VS{27}Pure
religion
and
undefiled
before
our
God
and
Father
is
this:
to
visit
the fatherless
and
widows
in
their
affliction,
and
to
keep
oneself
unstained
by
the
world.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
brothers,
don’t
hold
the
faith
of
our
glorious
Lord Yeshua
the
Messiah
with
partiality.
\VS{2}For
if
a
man
with
a
gold
ring,
in
fine
clothing,
comes
into
your
synagogue,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:2 }
or, meeting}
and
a
poor
man
in
filthy
clothing
also
comes
in,
\VS{3}and
you
pay
special
attention
to
him
who wears
the
fine
clothing
and
say, “Sit
here
in
a
good
place;”
and
you
tell
the
poor
man, “Stand
there,”
or “Sit
by
my
footstool”
\VS{4}haven’t
you shown partiality
among
yourselves,
and
become
judges
with
evil
thoughts?
\VS{5}Listen,
my
beloved
brothers.
Didn’t
God
choose
those
who
are
poor
in
this
world
to
be
rich
in
faith
and
heirs
of
the
Kingdom
which
he
promised
to
those
who
love
him?
\VS{6}But
you
have
dishonored
the
poor
man.
Don’t
the
rich oppress
you
and
personally
drag
you
before
the
courts?
\VS{7}Don’t
they
blaspheme
the
honorable
name
by
which
you
are
called?
\par }{\PP \VS{8}However,
if
you fulfill
the
royal
law
according
to
the
Scripture, “You shall
love
your
neighbor
as
yourself,”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:8 }
Leviticus 19:18}
you
do
well.
\VS{9}But
if
you
show
partiality,
you commit
sin, being
convicted
by
the
law
as
transgressors.
\VS{10}For
whoever
keeps
the
whole
law,
and
yet
stumbles
in
one point,
he
has
become
guilty
of
all.
\VS{11}For
he
who
said, “Do
not
commit
adultery,”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:11 }
Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18}
also
said, “Do
not
commit
murder.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:11 }
Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17
}
Now
if
you
do
not
commit
adultery
but
do
murder,
you
have
become
a
transgressor
of
the
law.
\VS{12}So
speak
and
so
do
as men
who
are
to
be
judged
by
the
law
of
freedom.
\VS{13}For
judgment
is
without
mercy
to
him
who
has
shown
no
mercy.
Mercy
triumphs
over
judgment.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}What
good
is
it,
my
brothers,
if
a
man
says
he
has
faith,
but
has
no
works?
Can
faith
save
him?
\VS{15}And
if
a
brother
or
sister
is
naked
and
in
lack
of
daily
food,
\VS{16}and
one
of
you tells
them, “Go
in
peace.
Be
warmed
and
filled;”
yet
you
didn’t
give
them
the
things
the
body
needs,
what
good
is
it?
\VS{17}Even
so
faith,
if
it
has
no
works,
is
dead
in
itself.
\VS{18}Yes,
a
man
will
say, “You
have
faith,
and
I
have
works.”
Show
me
your
faith
without
works,
and
I
will
show
you
my
faith
by
my
works.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}You
believe
that
God
is
one.
You
do
well.
The
demons
also
believe—and
shudder.
\VS{20}But
do
you
want
to
know,
vain
man,
that
faith
apart
from
works
is dead?
\VS{21}Wasn’t
Abraham
our
father
justified
by
works,
in
that
he
offered
up
Isaac
his
son
on
the
altar?
\VS{22}You
see
that
faith
worked
with
his
works,
and
by
works
faith
was
perfected.
\VS{23}So
the
Scripture
was
fulfilled
which
says, “Abraham
believed
God,
and
it
was accounted
to
him
as
righteousness,”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 2:23 }
Genesis 15:6}
and
he
was
called
the
friend
of
God.
\VS{24}You
see
then
that
by
works
a
man
is
justified,
and
not
only
by
faith.
\VS{25}In
the
same
way,
wasn’t
Rahab
the
prostitute
also
justified
by
works
when she
received
the
messengers
and
sent
them
out
another
way?
\VS{26}For
as
the
body
apart
from
the
spirit
is
dead,
even
so
faith
apart
from
works
is
dead.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Let
not
many
of
you
be
teachers,
my
brothers,
knowing
that
we
will
receive heavier
judgment.
\VS{2}For
we
all
stumble
in
many
things.
Anyone
who
doesn’t
stumble
in
word
is
a
perfect
person,
able
to
bridle
the
whole
body
also.
\VS{3}Indeed,
we
put
bits
into
the
horses’
mouths
so
that
they
may
obey
us,
and
we guide
their
whole
body.
\VS{4}Behold,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:4 }
“Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
the
ships
also,
though
they
are
so big
and
are
driven
by fierce
winds,
are
yet guided
by
a
very
small
rudder,
wherever
the
pilot
desires.
\VS{5}So
the
tongue
is
also
a
little
member,
and boasts
great
things.
See
how
a
small
fire can spread
to
a
large
forest!
\VS{6}And
the
tongue
is
a
fire.
The
world
of
iniquity
among
our
members
is
the
tongue,
which
defiles
the
whole
body,
and
sets
on
fire
the
course
of nature,
and
is
set
on
fire
by Gehinnom.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:6 }
or, Hell}
\VS{7}For
every
kind
of animal,
bird, creeping thing,
and
sea
creature
is
tamed,
and
has
been
tamed
by mankind;
\VS{8}but
nobody
can
tame
the
tongue.
It
is
a
restless
evil,
full
of
deadly
poison.
\VS{9}With
it
we
bless
our
God
and
Father,
and
with
it
we
curse
men
who
are
made
in
the
image
of
God.
\VS{10}Out
of
the
same
mouth
comes
blessing
and
cursing.
My
brothers,
these
things
ought
not
to
be
so.
\VS{11}Does
a
spring
send
out
from
the
same
opening
fresh
and
bitter water?
\VS{12}Can
a
fig
tree,
my
brothers, yield
olives,
or
a
vine
figs? Thus
no spring yields both
salt
water
and
fresh
water.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Who
is
wise
and
understanding
among
you? Let
him
show
by
his
good
conduct
that
his
deeds
are
done
in
gentleness
of
wisdom.
\VS{14}But
if
you
have
bitter
jealousy
and
selfish
ambition
in
your
heart,
don’t
boast
and
don’t
lie
against
the
truth.
\VS{15}This
wisdom
is
not
that
which
comes
down
from
above,
but
is
earthly, sensual,
and
demonic.
\VS{16}For
where
jealousy
and
selfish
ambition
are,
there
is
confusion
and
every
evil
deed.
\VS{17}But
the
wisdom
that
is
from
above
is
first
pure,
then
peaceful,
gentle, reasonable,
full
of
mercy
and
good
fruits,
without partiality,
and
without
hypocrisy.
\VS{18}Now
the
fruit
of
righteousness
is
sown
in
peace
by
those
who
make
peace.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Where
do
wars
and fightings
among
you
come
from?
Don’t
they
come
from
your
pleasures
that
war
in
your
members?
\VS{2}You
lust,
and
don’t
have.
You
murder
and
covet,
and
can’t
obtain.
You
fight
and
make
war.
You
don’t
have,
because
you
don’t
ask.
\VS{3}You
ask,
and
don’t
receive,
because
you
ask
with
wrong
motives,
so
that
you
may
spend
it
on
your
pleasures.
\VS{4}You
adulterers
and
adulteresses,
don’t
you
know
that
friendship
with
the
world
is
hostility toward
God?
Whoever
therefore wants
to
be
a
friend
of
the
world
makes himself
an
enemy
of
God.
\VS{5}Or
do
you
think
that
the
Scripture
says
in vain, “The
Spirit
who
lives
in
us yearns
jealously”?
\VS{6}But
he
gives
more
grace.
Therefore
it
says, “God resists
the
proud,
but
gives
grace
to
the
humble.”\XREF{✡}{{\XO 4:6 }
Proverbs 3:34}
\VS{7}Be
subject
therefore
to
God.
Resist
the
devil,
and
he
will
flee
from
you.
\VS{8}Draw
near
to
God,
and
he
will
draw
near
to
you.
Cleanse
your
hands,
you
sinners.
Purify
your
hearts,
you
double-minded.
\VS{9}Lament,
mourn,
and
weep. Let
your
laughter
be
turned
to
mourning
and
your
joy
to
gloom.
\VS{10}Humble
yourselves
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
he
will
exalt
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Don’t
speak
against
one
another,
brothers.
He
who
speaks
against
a
brother
and
judges
his
brother,
speaks
against
the
law
and
judges
the
law.
But
if
you
judge
the
law,
you
are
not
a
doer
of
the
law
but
a
judge.
\VS{12}Only
one
is
the
lawgiver,
who
is
able
to
save
and
to
destroy.
But
who
are
you
to
judge
another?
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Come
now,
you
who
say, “Today
or
tomorrow let’s
go
into
this
city
and
spend
a
year
there, trade,
and
make
a
profit.”
\VS{14}Yet
you
don’t
know
what
your
life
will
be
like
tomorrow.
For
what
is
your
life?
For
you
are
a
vapor
that
appears
for
a
little
time
and
then
vanishes
away.
\VS{15}For
you
ought
to
say, “If
the
Lord
wills,
we
will
both
live,
and
do
this
or
that.”
\VS{16}But
now
you
glory
in
your
boasting.
All
such
boasting
is
evil.
\VS{17}To
him
therefore
who
knows
to
do
good
and
doesn’t
do
it,
to
him
it
is
sin.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Come
now,
you
rich,
weep
and
howl
for
your
miseries
that
are
coming
on
you.
\VS{2}Your
riches
are corrupted
and
your
garments
are
moth-eaten.
\VS{3}Your
gold
and
your
silver
are corroded,
and
their corrosion
will
be
for
a
testimony
against
you
and
will
eat
your
flesh
like
fire.
You
have laid
up
your
treasure
in
the
last
days.
\VS{4}Behold,
the
wages
of
the
laborers
who
mowed
your
fields,
which
you
have kept
back
by fraud,
cry
out;
and
the
cries
of
those
who
reaped
have
entered
into
the
ears
of
the
Lord
of Hosts.\FTNT{*}{{\FR 5:4 }
Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot)}
\VS{5}You
have
lived
in luxury
on
the
earth,
and taken
your
pleasure.
You
have
nourished
your
hearts
as
in
a
day
of
slaughter.
\VS{6}You
have condemned
and
you
have
murdered
the
righteous
one. He
doesn’t
resist
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Be
patient
therefore,
brothers,
until
the
coming
of
the
Lord.
Behold,
the
farmer
waits
for
the
precious
fruit
of
the
earth, being
patient
over
it,
until
it
receives
the early
and
late rain.
\VS{8}You
also
be
patient.
Establish
your
hearts,
for
the
coming
of
the
Lord
is
at
hand.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Don’t
grumble,
brothers,
against
one
another,
so
that
you
won’t
be
judged.
Behold,
the
judge
stands
at
the
door.
\VS{10}Take,
brothers,
for
an
example
of
suffering
and
of
perseverance,
the
prophets
who
spoke
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Behold,
we call
them
blessed
who
endured.
You
have
heard
of
the
perseverance
of Job
and
have
seen
the
Lord
in
the
outcome,
and
how
the
Lord
is
full
of
compassion
and
mercy.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}But
above
all
things,
my
brothers,
don’t
swear—
not
by
heaven,
or
by
the
earth,
or
by
any
other
oath;
but
let
your “yes”
be “yes”,
and
your “no”, “no”,
so
that
you
don’t
fall
into hypocrisy.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 5:12 }
TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Is
any
among
you
suffering? Let
him
pray.
Is
any
cheerful? Let
him
sing
praises.
\VS{14}Is
any
among
you
sick? Let
him
call
for
the
elders
of
the
assembly,
and let
them
pray
over
him, anointing
him
with
oil
in
the
name
of
the
Lord;
\VS{15}and
the
prayer
of
faith
will heal
him
who
is
sick,
and
the
Lord
will
raise
him
up.
If
he
has
committed
sins,
he
will
be
forgiven.
\VS{16}Confess
your
sins
to
one
another
and
pray
for
one
another,
that
you
may
be
healed.
The insistent
prayer
of
a
righteous
person
is powerfully
effective.
\VS{17}Elijah
was
a
man
with
a
nature
like
ours,
and
he
prayed
earnestly
that
it
might
not
rain,
and
it
didn’t
rain
on
the
earth
for
three
years
and
six
months.
\VS{18}He
prayed
again,
and
the
sky
gave
rain,
and
the
earth
produced
its
fruit.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Brothers,
if
any
among
you
wanders
from
the
truth
and
someone
turns
him
back,
\VS{20}let
him
know
that
he
who
turns
a
sinner
from
the
error
of
his
way
will
save
a
soul
from
death
and
will
cover
a
multitude
of
sins.
\par }